INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN PROGRAM FOR SETTING CONNECTION INFORMATION

• US 20170300106A1
• Filed: 04/11/2017
• Published: 10/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Client Computing Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Matsuda, Mitsumasa
• Granted Patent: US 10,459,515 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/24 Resetting means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3203 Power management, i.e. event-based initiation of a power-saving mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3287 by switching off individual functional units in the computer system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4403 Processor initialisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4411 Configuring for operating with peripheral devices; Loading of device drivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/17 Selecting a data network PoA [Point of Attachment]

Abstract

An information processing apparatus including: a communication processor; a controller that makes the communication processor be in a port opened state when the information processing apparatus is powered on; and a setting processor that sets connection information in the communication processor made into the port opened state by the controller through executing a program file to set the connection information. This configuration makes it possible to easily set communication setting information.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a communication processor;

a controller that makes the communication processor be in a port opened state when the information processing apparatus is powered on; and

a setting processor that sets connection information in the communication processor made into the port opened state by the controller through executing a program file to set the connection information.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a connector that is able to connect thereto a first recording medium that stores therein the program file; and

a reader that reads, when the first recording medium is connected to the connector at powering on the information processing apparatus, the program file from the first recording medium, wherein

the setting processor executes the program file read by the reader.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a connection switching controller that connects, when the first recording medium is connected to the connector at powering on the information processing apparatus, the communication processor to a power-source controller, wherein

the power-source controller has functions as the controller, the setting processor, the reader, and the connection switching controller.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second recording medium that stores therein a plurality of the program files associated one with a plurality of pieces of the connection information, wherein

the setting processor executes, in a start process performed after the information processing apparatus is powered on, one of the plurality of program files being stored in the second recording medium and being associated with selected one of the plurality of pieces of the connection information.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a control circuit device that powers off the communication processor, wherein

the controller restarts the information processing apparatus after the controller causes the control circuit device to power off the communication processor.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program for setting connection information that causes a processor, being included in an information processing apparatus including a communication processor, to execute:

make the communication processor be in a port opened state when the information processing apparatus is powered on; and

set the connection information in the communication processor made into the port opened state by executing a program file to set the connection information.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 6, wherein the program causes the processor to further execute:

read, when a first recording medium storing therein the program file is connected to a connector, being able to connect thereto the first recording medium, at powering on the information processing apparatus, the program file from the first recording medium; and

execute the read program file.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 7, wherein the program causes the processor to further execute:

when the first recording medium is connected to the connector at powering on the information processing apparatus, connect the communication processor to a power-source controller.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 6, wherein the program causes the processor to further execute:

in a start process performed after the information processing apparatus is powered on,

execute a program file associated with selected one of a plurality of pieces of the connection information, the program file being stored in a second recording medium that stores therein a plurality of the program files associated one with a plurality of pieces of the connection information.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 9, wherein the program causes the processor to further execute:

restart the information processing apparatus after the processor causes a control circuit device that powers off the communication processor to power off the communication processor.